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The Natural: Fate - Online Term Paper

The Natural: Fate

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but
I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act
G.K. Chesterton, Generaly Speaking
Some people think that fate is something you are born with,
something that follows you around for the rest of your life until the day
you die. I think that fate is something that exists in your sub-conscience,
therefore making it nothing more than your conscience.

In the book The Natural by Bernard Malamud the main character Roy
Hobbs had a very distinct flaw, a flaw that millions of American men and
women both have...... an obsession with sex which affected his charecter
and which made him a very unsuccessful man. From the ...

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Memo is lying buck-naked on the bed. When Roy notices her there
he doesn't stop and think,”Hold on a second their is a naked woman in my
bed mabey I should turn on the light and ask her what she's doing here” No,
he just jumps into bed and runs the bases. So one day Bump dies and Roy
thinks that Memo's all his, boy is he wrong. This new found passion
totally messes up his train of thought and guess what? Yup, you guessed it
another woman falls into his life. Strike two!

The woman is a very attractive....grandmother???? Her name was
Iris who he meets at a baseball game standing in the crowd. So he decides
to go after her and one fine day he forgets his rubbers and gets her
pregnant, but he still is in love with Memo. While Memo and Roy were
talking one day she said that she needed a man that would buy her a car,
get her a housekeeper etc. so he goes and excepts this payoff to blow the
game so that he can buy Memo all those things. Strike three!

It was game ...

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Added: 8/16/2008 05:03:36 AM
Category: Book Reports
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 512
Pages: 2

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